SALVATION ARMY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 27, 27 October 1942, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY

New Cadets Appointed

Eleven Salvation Army cadets who have been preparing for ofiicership lor the past seven mouths at the Training College in -Aro Street, Wellington, received their commissions and appointments at a service conducted by Commissioner J. Evan Smith in the Vivian Street Citadel last night. Features ot the gathering were the presentation of silver stars to mothers of the cadets by Mrs. Commissioner Smith, and the presentation of Red Cross certificates b> Mrs. Colonel Ebbs. , Cadets Nellie Gould and Ernest lon„ gave personal testimony as to their call to the army’s work, and their desire to be of service to humanity. .brigadier Florence Birks; training principal, gave the sessional review, telling of good work done by the cadets; and Commissioner Smith commissioned and appointed the cadets. The prayer of dedication was offered by Lieutenant-Colonel it. Burton, and Colonel W. A. Ebbs received the new officers, welcoming them as a valuable addition to the army’s leaderappointments of the new officers pro as followsPro-Lieutenant Loral Brooks, Karori; ITo-Lictenant Nellie Gould, Greymouth; Pro-Lieutenant Dorothy Haudisides, Hawera; Pro-Lieuten-ant Edna Marshall, Sandrigham; IroLieutenaut Winifred Potiinore, Leeston; Pro-Lieutenant ‘Winsome Rive, iukekohe; Pro-Lieutenant Alice Tracey, Winton; Pro-Lieutenant Leila Winner, Gres Lynn; Pro-Lieutenant- Robert Aitken. Cambridge; Pro-Captain and Mrs. E. Tong, Port Chalmers.